The fifth game, and the one that introduces Dale Vandermeer — the detective who ends up carrying more of this series than anyone else.
Where it sits in the series
Dale takes four of the ten Cube Escape entries: Case 23, Birthday, Theatre and Paradox. No other protagonist gets more than two. If you are looking for the closest thing the Cube Escape line has to a main character, it starts here, and the four run in release order with other games in between.
What is confirmed
| Released | 2015 |
| Line | Cube Escape — entry 5 of the nineteen, and the fifth of the 10 Cube Escape games |
| Protagonist | Dale Vandermeer |
| In Cube Escape Collection | Yes — the Steam bundle covers the first nine Cube Escape games |
Everything this table does not list is in the unconfirmed notes on this page rather than filled in from a guess. The four-source basis for the catalogue is set out on all 19 games.
Play order
In release order this is number 5 of nineteen. It follows Cube Escape: Harvey's Box and is followed by Cube Escape: The Mill.
The two lines interleave by year, so a flat release list is not the same as reading the Cube Escape games first. The sorted version is on Rusty Lake games in order.
Related
- Rusty Lake games in order — the full play order, and where to start
- All 19 Rusty Lake games — the complete catalogue with years and protagonists
- The Rusty Lake timeline — story order versus release order
- Which one is best — the four entries Metacritic scores
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Not confirmed
We could not verify the following against a source we trust, so it is left out rather than guessed at.
- Exact release date. The year is confirmed against two sources; the day is not.
- Playtime. Rusty Lake has never published a figure for this entry and no aggregator lists one.
- Current price and free/paid status. Being collected per entry from the store listings.
- Platform list. Wikipedia does not give one for this entry and it has not been confirmed from a store page.
- Metacritic only scores four Rusty Lake games. The absence of a score here is not a low score.
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